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    Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 9th Signal Command

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    Constituted 14 February 1918 in the Regular Army as the 9th Service Company, Signal Corps

    Activated 19 April 1918 in Hawaii

    Redesignated in June 1922 as Service Company Number 9, Signal Corps

    Redesignated 12 May 1925 as the 9th Signal Service Company

    Redesignated 24 April 1943 as the 972d Signal Service Company

    Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1944 as the 972d Signal Service Battalion

    Inactivated 18 October 1948 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii

    Redesignated 14 May 1958 as the 972d Signal Battalion

    Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 972d Signal Battalion, activated 23 June 1958 at Tobyhanna Signal Depot, Pennsylvania

    Reorganized and redesignated 4 May 1965 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 972d Signal Battalion

    Inactivated 20 October 1967 in Vietnam

    Activated 10 May 1968 at Fort Lewis, Washington

    Inactivated 29 November 1969 in Vietnam

    Redesignated 16 September 1997 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 9th Signal Command, and activated at Fort Huachuca, Arizona


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    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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